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To: Joe NYC who wrote (29542)	9/17/1998 11:30:00 PM
From: Craig Freeman	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 33344

<off topic> The true reason behind today's market drop ... Congress limits access to Internet porn. Will PC sales plummet? From the Wall Street Journal: "House Panel Passes Legislation Restricting Youth Access to Porn Associated Press WASHINGTON -- Renewing efforts to curb Internet pornography, a House panel cleared a bill Thursday that would require operators of commercial Web sites to restrict young people's access to "harmful" material. Last year the Supreme Court gutted the 1996 Communications Decency Act, Congress' first attempt to limit youth access, objecting that parts of the act were overly broad and likely to keep such pornographic material from adults who have a right to see it. Rep. Mike Oxley (R., Ohio), the chief sponsor of H.R. 3783, said the measure limiting access by people under 17 can survive a court challenge because it is a "more reasonable product" than the 1996 law. The House Commerce subcommittee on telecommunications, trade and consumer protection approved the bill by voice vote and sent it to the full committee for further review. The Senate, meanwhile, has passed a version of the bill sponsored by Sen. Dan Coats (R., Ind.) as part of the 1999 spending bill for the departments of Commerce, Justice and State. Mr. Oxley's House bill would require operators of commercial adult Web sites to limit access by minors. Internet-service providers would escape liability for adult-oriented material they do not produce, but would be required to inform consumers about devices available commercially to block children's access to material "harmful to minors." According to the bill, material harmful to minors embraces any communication, picture, image, article, recording, writing or other matter of any kind that an average person applying contemporary community standards would decide is designed to appeal to the "prurient interest." Violators could face civil and criminal penalties. The bill said access to such Web sites could be controlled by requiring use of a credit card, debit account or adult personal identification number, among other methods. Mr. Oxley said "common sense" and more than 40 years of research into child development have shown that exposure to sexually explicit images causes significant harm to children. "It is our responsibility to protect young people from the corrosive, debasing effects of the voluminous graphic adult content readily available on the World Wide Web," he said. A few panel members expressed reservations about the effort ..." Craig